When someone messes up what you just cleaned

It's a timing problem. Here's what to do instead.

You cleared it after dinner.

Not a deep clean. Just — moved the cutting board back, wiped the crumbs, put the olive oil away, lined up the salt and pepper so the surface looked like a surface again. Took maybe four minutes.

Then someone set a glass down. Right in the middle.

And you felt something tighten. Not about the glass. About the fact that you just …